Department seminars
Second term, Jan - Apr 2026
The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire.
Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).
Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
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Jan 16 | Russell Toth (University of Sydney) | Colette Salemi | |
Jan 23 |
Michael Devereux (UBC) | Ke Xu | |
Jan 30 | Arthur Sweetman (McMaster University) | Martin Farnham | |
Feb 06 | Elizabeth Dhuey (University of Toronto) | Peter Kennedy / Janet Burlacu | |
Feb 13 | Liam Kelly (UNBC) | David Scoones | |
Feb 20 | Reading Break | Reading Break | Reading Break |
Feb 27 | Dinghai Xu (Waterloo University) | Ke Xu | |
Mar 06 | Christopher Carpenter (Vanderbilt, College of Arts and Science) | Donn Feir | |
Mar 10 |
*Reid Elliot Lecture |
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Mar 13 | Jeffrey Bloem (IFPRI) | Colette Salemi | |
Mar 20 | Christopher Blattman (University of Chicago) | Colette Salemi | |
Mar 27 | TBA | TBA | |
Apr 10 |
Marianne Page *Reid Elliot Lecture |
Justin Wiltshire |
First term, Sep - Dec 2025
The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire.
Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).
If you are interested in viewing a paper from one of our seminar speakers, please contact econdept@uvic.ca for a copy.
Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
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Sep 05 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Sep 12 | Xiaozhou Zhou (University of Quebec at Montreal) | TBA | Ke Xu |
Sep 17 *Wednesday |
Henrique Pita Barros (University of Lisbon) | TBA | Colette Salemi |
Sep 19 | Tae-Hwy Lee (University of California, Riverside) | TBA | Tao Wang |
Sep 26 |
Phillip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto, Mississauga) *Lansdowne Lecture |
TBA | Justin Wiltshire |
Oct 03 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Oct 10 | TBA | TBA | |
Oct 17 | Elizabeth Lyons (University of California San Diego) | TBA | Gustavson Business School |
Oct 24 | Jonathon Proctor (University of British Columbia, Land and Food Systems) | TBA | Felix Pretis |
Oct 31 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Nov 07 | Kourtney Kobel (University of Toronto) | TBA |
Peter Kenedy / Janet Burlacu |
Nov 14 | Bryan Leonard (University of Wyoming) | TBA | |
Nov 21 | Reka Juhasz (University of British Columbia) | TBA | |
Nov 28 | Godefroy Emmanuel Guindon (McMaster University) | TBA | |
Dec 05 | Kevin Milligan (University of British Clumbia) | TBA |
Second term, Jan - Apr 2025
The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire.
Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).
First term, Sep - Dec 2024
The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire.
Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).
If you are interested in viewing a paper from one of our seminar speakers, please contact econdept@uvic.ca for a copy.
Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
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Sep 20 | Amy Sun (Queens) | Bank Loan Portfolio and Monetary Policy | Ke Xu |
Sep 27 | Augustin Tapsoba (Toulouse School of Economics) | Polygyny and the Economic Determinants of Family Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa | Donn Feir |
Oct 4 *Lansdowne BEC 363 |
Marianne Bitler (UC Davis) | Long-Run Effects of Food Assistance: Evidence from the Food Stamp Program and Administrative Data | Justin Wiltshire |
Oct 11 | Ian Luby (The Nature Conservancy) | From Global Agreements to Local Action: The Role of Economics in Protecting the Planet | Colette Salemi |
Oct 18 | Jing Tao (University of Washington) | Post-Clustering Robust Inference | Tao Wang |
Oct 25 | Witson Pena Tello (University of Barcelona) | Policy Interactions and CO2 Emissions in the Electricity Generation Sector: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis | Katya Rhodes / Colette Salemi |
Nov 1 | Carl McPherson | How Magnetic Can Welfare Be? | Justin Wiltshire |
Nov 8 | Nicholas Carollo (Federal Reserve Board) | The Impact of Occupational Licensing on Earnings and Employment: Evidence from State Policy Changes | Jason Hicks |
Nov 15 | Mahdi Shariati Feizabadi | Sport Geoeconometric | |
Nov 22 | Siwei Wang (Hunan University, China) | Quantile Prediction with Factor-augmented Regression: Structural Instability and Model Uncertainty | Tao Wang |